Senior Product Development Scientist, Condiments & Sauces

CareersInFood.com; Mauldin (SC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sauer Brands is seeking a Product Development Scientist to drive innovation, renovation, and maintenance of condiment and sauce lines. You will lead cross-functional projects from concept to commercialization, craft tests, analyze data, and translate results for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Food Science or related field, at least five years in product development, understanding ingredient functionality, and travel up to 25% to support

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biological Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of five (5) years relevant product development and commercialization experience required; familiarity leading projects for foodservice and/or condiments and sauces strongly preferred.
• Understanding of ingredient functionality and interrelationship of ingredients, processes, and packaging.
• Excellent communication, influencing, prioritization, and project management skills.
• Strong critical thinking and ability to connect to the big picture.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% to support commercialization activities and customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead condiment and sauce projects from concept to commercialization with cross functional teams.
• Learn new product categories and processing technologies.
• Develop concepts/prototypes addressing customer issues within our portfolio.
• Manage multiple development projects to meet R&D timelines.
• Design and execute bench and factory trials and translate results for all audiences.
• Communicate with external partners including customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
• Apply scientific principles to new situations with a high degree of autonomy.
• Create and maintain multi-component product documentation and specifications.

Skills

Product development

Project management

Food science

Design of Experiments

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Food Science or related field

Job description

Sauer Brands is seeking a Product Development Scientist to drive innovation, renovation, and maintenance of condiment and sauce lines. You will lead cross-functional projects from concept to commercialization, craft tests, analyze data, and translate results for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Food Science or related field, at least five years in product development, understanding ingredient functionality, and travel up to 25% to support